I know that when my Mum passes, I will miss her desperately. I know that the "steps" to grief will have me all kinds of mixed up and with a big ol' helping of guilt thrown in for good measure ( Read more... )

How do people abandon pets? For the last three months or so, Mum has had a stray cat practically living in her house, she was a beautiful little girl. When she'd been there about three weeks, we found a charity that would take her in, but when we took her, it turned out that she had kittens somewhere, as she was in milk, so we took her home again ( Read more... )

Just realised all my clocks are still wrong from last week's UK clocks going back. I'll get to it eventually ( Read more... )

Heh - Offender turned up today to see me, p*ssed out of his skull. He was clearly trying, despite his tired and emotional state and remembered that he's been told not to call staff "darling" - he stopped himself mid darl and apologised. Too bad that when he left, he patted me on the bum to say thank you ( Read more... )

It's Friday. Thank goodness, it's been a hell of a week. But Positives nonetheless ( Read more... )

( Monday was very odd )

And for all but two days of it, I've been lain on my sofa feeling sorry for myself. Which in itself is unpleasant, but it limits the inspiration to say something more interesting than "I've been flaked out on the sofa for 5 days feeling sorry for myself ( Read more... )

I've got to go back to work tomorrow. Which is depressing and distressing in equal measures. I am trying to not think about it, which isn't the best of ploys. I shall be going to bed imminently not sure whether that's a preparatory or an avoidance technique ( Read more... )

A proper good day ( Read more... )

Had to take Mum to the emergency GP last night - She's okay, UTI tthat will not go away and resulted in bleeding last night and scared her witless, she now has yet more antibiotics and is now *finally* listening to our exhortations to drink more water! but bleeding has tailed off and she is no longer in terrified mode. Oh but I had the oddest ( Read more... )